Advanced Features

The Advanced tab grants you fast access to an array of advanced tools, among them the Memcached distributed memory caching system and the Varnish Cache web accelerator, which will help you optimize your websites and applications without the need to log out of the hosting Control Panel. Depending on the website hosting package, these tools are either included by default or are available in the form of easily gettable upgrades. InnoDB and NodeJS support is available too.

Varnish

Varnish Cache is a web accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You can install it in front of any web server that speaks the HTTP protocol and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast and will improve your website's loading speed. One of the key strengths of Varnish Cache is the flexibility of its principal configuration mechanism, VCL, which enables you to determine how incoming requests should be tackled.

Memcached

Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory object caching system for speeding up dynamic database-driven web sites. It is used to decrease the number of times an external data source (such as a DB or API) is read by caching data and objects in RAM. The Memcached system uses a client/server architecture. The Memcached distributed memory caching system is employed by some of the most traffic-hungry websites on the web and is supported by popular web applications like Joomla and WordPress.

Node.js

Node.js is a software system for writing scalable Internet apps. Built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime, Node.js uses an event-based, non-blocking input/output model that makes it lightweight and effective, ideal for real-time content-intensive Internet apps. Node.js uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine, libUV, and a number of in-built libraries.

InnoDB

InnoDB is the default storage engine for the MySQL open-source database management system. A storage engine is the main software component that a database management system uses to create, retrieve, update and delete data from a database. The latest release of InnoDB features serious improvements in efficacy, stability and functionality. InnoDB offers the standard ACID database transaction attributes, as well as declarative referential integrity support. InnoDB is included as standard in most binaries distributed by MySQL AB.